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Originally Posted by Red
With Sutter in charge the Flames were a destination. With Tre, they are not.
Sutter spent and had some early success. Both drew players interest. Plus great fans. Treliving is a dollar store shopper with crappy results. Inspires a "meh" attitude.
Players go where the management is willing to spend to win. If I am a player, I see the Flames as a small market team just trying to survive. Under Sutter they were respected and seen as a great team.
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Sutter prioritized players who wanted to be here. So there's a self fulfilling prophecy there. Plus the Flames have spent to the cap consistently. Certainly they have shown signs that they are willing to spend to win. Unless this is just about the narrative that they won't spend on a top tier coach? That's just a single data point/element.
I think we are all making a ton of assumptions. And in your case I think you are projecting your feelings about the GM to assume that players also feel that way. That may be true, but we certainly don't know and how widespread that is.
The reality is that these decisions are highly personal to each person and family and trying to simplify down to over-arching or common themes, as we are trying to do in this thread, is just naive.
I do think there are markets that are highly attractive for reasons I outlined. Then you probably have a big bunch in the middle where it comes down to personal choice, and then a small number that are very unattractive.
But it's going to come down to what is important to each player and their families.